[KEY TOPIC] Official LEGO Sets made in LDD

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Thanks for your detailed reply Aanchir. That's the way for quality discussions

About the flys feet, my mistake. They are there - sorry.

OK, Now I understand why you left the pincers out. I would still put them in though.

Regarding propeller circle, looking at the physical model once again, I do seem to detect a slight "ovality" (is that even a word?), so I guess we here have a case where you HAVE to make a slight oval in LDD to make it fit - a nice task for you

This is something I'll bring up with the LDD Team, since I know there has been talk in the future to lock the click-hinges to 22.5 degress so you can't free-rotate them like you can today. This model however shows that there must be a slight "give" in the joints, otherwise you won't be able to make this model (among others).

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Thanks for your detailed reply Aanchir. That's the way for quality discussions

About the flys feet, my mistake. They are there - sorry.

OK, Now I understand why you left the pincers out. I would still put them in though.

Regarding propeller circle, looking at the physical model once again, I do seem to detect a slight "ovality" (is that even a word?), so I guess we here have a case where you HAVE to make a slight oval in LDD to make it fit - a nice task for you

This is something I'll bring up with the LDD Team, since I know there has been talk in the future to lock the click-hinges to 22.5 degress so you can't free-rotate them like you can today. This model however shows that there must be a slight "give" in the joints, otherwise you won't be able to make this model (among others).

Keep in mind, though, that as brilliant as Exo-Force sets are, they don't have a reputation for sticking to legal connections. Another set the same year, 8111 River Dragon, used an illegal connection to attach the gun to the hand (this is visible in steps 12 and 13 of the instructions). This sort of bending of the rules, along with the large number of obscure BIONICLE parts used in sets, makes Exo-Force sets tremendously difficult to complete on LDD, hence why this one is the first one I've gotten to near-completion.

Testing the model with connector pieces that do work, you are correct that there has to be a bit of an ovaloid shape for the model to work effectively. I don't think I'm up to the task of completing that, at least not to the degree that there would be an even give on all of the hinges. So I guess this one is going to be incomplete for now unless someone's up to the task of finishing it for me.

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OK Aanchir - seems we cleared the ovality part out. Let's see if anyone picks up the token.

But I don't see the illagility in the step 12 and 13 you mention. The gray brick in step 12-1 is rotated 90 degrees when the gun goes into the hand. The gun is then placed on any of the anti-studs or pins on the back of the reverse sloped 1x2x3 brick. I don't have the set, but from the instructions I can't say that it's illegal.

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- The 4L bars are off to the side because they don't go deep enough into the 1x1 cones without bumping into the 1x6 plate on the ostrich gate

Thanks Prateek for that! I've been looking for a long time for a set that uses this technique (i.e. a bar positioned in the cavity of an anti-stud) so that I can show the LDD people that it is a relevant technique. And now I got it. Thanks!

BTW - I'm not sure if everyones knows about the anti-stud term. Anyway it's TLG lingo for....well, the hole where the stud goes - not to hard to figure out, but a nice term I think.

And to be completely true, TLG actually call it an anti-knob, I guess it feels more natural to them since a stud in Danish is called a "knobb".

And that concludes todays lesson

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OK Aanchir - seems we cleared the ovality part out. Let's see if anyone picks up the token.

But I don't see the illagility in the step 12 and 13 you mention. The gray brick in step 12-1 is rotated 90 degrees when the gun goes into the hand. The gun is then placed on any of the anti-studs or pins on the back of the reverse sloped 1x2x3 brick. I don't have the set, but from the instructions I can't say that it's illegal.

The illegality can be seen here. The 1x2 brick with bar cannot be placed on top of the hand holding a gun, since the slope brick used for the gun is attached by a technic brick. It's the same exact problem as is illustrated on pages 11 and 12 in this PDF you're so fond of linking to.

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The illegality can be seen here. The 1x2 brick with bar cannot be placed on top of the hand holding a gun, since the slope brick used for the gun is attached by a technic brick. It's the same exact problem as is illustrated on pages 11 and 12 in this PDF you're so fond of linking to.

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We are all waiting "10030 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer".. and I'm waiting it before I update the index!

EDIT: Actually, Calabar, you might as well go ahead and update without it. Looking at the System-scale Star Destroyer, the UCS will be a very long and difficult build that will take me a while to complete. I can upload the framework that I have already built and you can index it as incomplete, or you can wait a while for me or someone else to finish it.

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I know I said I'd finish it yesterday, but then I had to go to work... I really need to sort out my priorities

Obviously, there are quite a few things that aren't quite correct due to the random state of many of the angles of the hinges (I know, I spend most of my posts complaining about those, sorry). So the radar dish is suppose to fit in the hole in between the hull plates right next to where it is, and the top gun platform should be lower. But apart from that, I'm rather amazed I got to this state after working on it for a little more than a week...

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Awesome. I had been waiting for the pdf of this to be available at brickshelf. I never had the time to reverse engineer it. This will help me with presidential gags in Brick. Now I can do my B'rick Obama jokes.